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Gail Cafferata

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Born in Brooklyn, raised on Long Island, a follower of the Social Gospel, sociologist, author of The Last Pastor, and Episcopal priest. Loves gardening, birding, sailing, bread-making and walking the journey of life with family and friends.

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Blaming the victims!!!

21.09.2025 23:48 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Violates 1st Amendment!!

20.09.2025 19:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

1st amendment violation!!

20.09.2025 19:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Watch the Supremes overrule.

03.09.2025 21:23 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Watch the Supremes reverse this decision.

03.09.2025 21:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Breaking News: Read three top CDC officials' resignation emails. The end of an era.

These CDC resignations letters in their entirety are courageous witness to this administration’s destruction of science, medicine and public health. open.substack.com/pub/insideme...

28.08.2025 14:21 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Gutted: How Deeply Trump Has Cut Federal Health Agencies More than 20,500 workers have left or been pushed out of federal health agencies, a ProPublica analysis found. Staffers say the cuts will leave their agencies less equipped to conduct studies, perform...

projects.propublica.org/federal-heal...,

22.08.2025 15:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I wrote a real (USPS) letter to every Republican MD in Congress asking them to restore mRNA research dollars. Pray they read, mark and inwardly digest!

@standupforscience.bsky.social, Instagram: @standupforscience) #31days #31DaysOfAction #standupforscience and #summerfightforscience

14.08.2025 15:51 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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ADD YOUR NAME: We support faith based aid to immigrants and refugees Donald Trump's allies in Congress are ramping up their attacks on religious charities that help immigrants. As Christians, we need to speak up now.

ADD YOUR NAME: Donald Trump's allies in Congress are ramping up their attacks on religious charities that help immigrants. As Christians, we need to speak up now. act.faithfulamerica.org/sign/gop-ref...

18.07.2025 20:35 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Opinion | In Trump’s America, Who Gets to Call Themselves American?

In Trump’s America, Who Gets to Call Themselves American? www.nytimes.com/2025/07/04/o...

04.07.2025 13:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

His brain is not yet an adult.

22.06.2025 13:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump Administration Abandons Deal With Northwest Tribes to Restore Salmon The Trump administration canceled a deal, signed under President Joe Biden, that would have enabled the removal of four hydroelectric dams along the Columbia River that are considered harmful to salmo...

www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Heartbreaking.

13.06.2025 19:46 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump Sons’ Deals on Three Continents Directly Benefit the President

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/u...

09.05.2025 21:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

fb.watch/zmAILq57Ki/?...

04.05.2025 03:04 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Step Up, Stand up, Show up! A Revolution for All - Not the Few! Β· Indivisible This a local Indivisible Sonoma County event! Join the March! Sound the Alarm! Julliard Park to Old Courthouse Square! Bring Your Noise and Your Noisemakers!

I'm attending Indivisible's event, β€œStep Up, Stand up, Show up! A Revolution for All - Not the Few!” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...

17.04.2025 16:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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NIH Scientists Accidentally Fired; Sterile Drug Expert Cut; Blueprint for NIH Reform This past week in healthcare investigations

www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...

09.04.2025 19:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Protecting Africa's children from extreme risk: a runway of sustainability for PEPFAR programmes PEPFAR (President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief), a landmark US foreign health policy, is recognised for saving 26 million lives from HIV. PEPFAR investments have also had life-saving impacts for c...

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Without continued PEPFAR programmes, models predict that by 2030, an additional 1 million children will become infected with HIV, 0Β·5 million additional children will die of AIDS, and 2Β·8 million children will additionally become orphaned by AIDS.

08.04.2025 13:48 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump administration violated court order by pausing FEMA grants, judge says A federal judge ruled on Friday that U.S. President Donald Trump's administration violated a court order by halting the disbursement of hundreds of millions of dollars in Federal Emergency Management Agency grants to states.

Does anyone still doubt we’re in a constitutional crisis?

www.reuters.com/legal/trump-...

04.04.2025 17:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Urge your members of Congress to prioritize public health funding in fiscal year 2026 Robust funding for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Health Resources and Services Administration and other programs that address ongoing public health needs is critical to adequatel...

Urge your members of Congress to prioritize public health funding in fiscal year 2026

www.votervoice.net/Shares/BOT2s...

Sent from my iPhone

04.04.2025 16:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump administration quashes NIH scientific integrity policy The now-rescinded policy, designed to protect government researchers from political pressure, strongly endorsed DEI in science

Trump administration quashes NIH scientific integrity policy | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

04.04.2025 14:21 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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NSF has awarded almost 50% fewer grants since Trump took office The reasons aren’t clearβ€”and the agency’s director claims the president’s policies haven’t slowed grant awards

Killing science to give tax breaks to the wealthy...In what universe is this moral?

NSF has awarded almost 50% fewer grants since Trump took office | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

02.04.2025 18:27 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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On Transgender Day of Visibility, we celebrate the strength, courage, and contributions of transgender people.
We see you. We stand with you.

31.03.2025 16:25 β€” πŸ‘ 315    πŸ” 39    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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Republicans in Congress Aim to Reverse Ban on Chemical Linked to Cancer, Parkinson's TCE has been used for dry cleaning, manufacturing, and degreasing machines

This is idiocy and cruel!

Republicans in Congress Aim to Reverse Ban on Chemical Linked to Cancer, Parkinson's www.medpagetoday.com/publichealth...

31.03.2025 23:14 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump's War Against HIV Research and Care More than $1 billion in cuts affect at least 232 HIV-related programs to date

Blood on their hands!!

Trump's War Against HIV Research and Care www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi...

31.03.2025 23:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€˜People will die’: End of NIH grants guts work between academics and companies to counter next pandemic Alpha Lee announced a Zika virus-fighting molecule at a chemistry meeting, but later learned his $67M federal funding was cut due to pandemic's end, affecting multiple antiviral research programs.

endpts.com/covid-resear...

29.03.2025 14:34 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS
RUMEYSA OZTURK,
Petitioner
Case No. 25-cv-10695-DJC
PATRICIA HYDE, et al.,
Respondents.
ORDER
CASPER, J.
March 28, 2025
The Court notes that Petitioner Rumeysa Ozturk ("Ozturk") filed an Amended Petition and Complaint today, D. 12. Given the parties' apparent dispute regarding this Court's jurisdiction over the matter, D. 12 11 6-7 (asserting that this Court has subject matter jurisdiction); D. 9 at 1 n. I (suggesting grounds for a dispute regarding same), and given that
a federal court retains jurisdiction to maintain the status quo while it determines its subject
matter jurisdiction, Brownback v. King, 592 U.S. 209, 218-19 (2021) (quoting United States v.
Ruiz, 536 U.S. 622, 628 (2002); United States v, United Ming Werkers of Am. 330 U.S. 258, 293 (1947) (concluding that the district court "had the power to preserve existing conditions while
it was determining its own authority to grant injunctive relief"); scc. c.g.. Belbacha v. Bush, 520
F.3d 452, 456 (D.C. Cir. 2008) (invoking the All Writs Act, 28 U.S.C. Β§ 1651, and noting that if a
case presents a "substantial jurisdictional question... a district court may act to preserve its
jurisdiction while it determines whether it has jurisdiction"), the Court ORDERS as follows:
Case 1:25-cv-10695-DJC Document 16 Filed 03/28/25 Page 2 of 2
1. To allow the Court's resolution of its jurisdiction to decide the Petition, Ozturk shall not be removed from the United States until further Order of this Court. Sec Mahmoud Khalil v. Joyce, No. 25-cv-01935-JMF at ECF No. 9, 2025 WL 750599 (S.D.N.Y.
Mar. 10, 2025) (ruling that "[tjo preserve the Court's jurisdiction pending a ruling on the petition, Petitioner shall not be removed from the United States unless and until the Court orders otherwise"); and
2. The Respondents have until 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, April 1, 2025, to respond to the Amended Petition and Complaint, D. 12.
So Ordered.
/s Denise J. Casper
United States Distric…

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS RUMEYSA OZTURK, Petitioner Case No. 25-cv-10695-DJC PATRICIA HYDE, et al., Respondents. ORDER CASPER, J. March 28, 2025 The Court notes that Petitioner Rumeysa Ozturk ("Ozturk") filed an Amended Petition and Complaint today, D. 12. Given the parties' apparent dispute regarding this Court's jurisdiction over the matter, D. 12 11 6-7 (asserting that this Court has subject matter jurisdiction); D. 9 at 1 n. I (suggesting grounds for a dispute regarding same), and given that a federal court retains jurisdiction to maintain the status quo while it determines its subject matter jurisdiction, Brownback v. King, 592 U.S. 209, 218-19 (2021) (quoting United States v. Ruiz, 536 U.S. 622, 628 (2002); United States v, United Ming Werkers of Am. 330 U.S. 258, 293 (1947) (concluding that the district court "had the power to preserve existing conditions while it was determining its own authority to grant injunctive relief"); scc. c.g.. Belbacha v. Bush, 520 F.3d 452, 456 (D.C. Cir. 2008) (invoking the All Writs Act, 28 U.S.C. Β§ 1651, and noting that if a case presents a "substantial jurisdictional question... a district court may act to preserve its jurisdiction while it determines whether it has jurisdiction"), the Court ORDERS as follows: Case 1:25-cv-10695-DJC Document 16 Filed 03/28/25 Page 2 of 2 1. To allow the Court's resolution of its jurisdiction to decide the Petition, Ozturk shall not be removed from the United States until further Order of this Court. Sec Mahmoud Khalil v. Joyce, No. 25-cv-01935-JMF at ECF No. 9, 2025 WL 750599 (S.D.N.Y. Mar. 10, 2025) (ruling that "[tjo preserve the Court's jurisdiction pending a ruling on the petition, Petitioner shall not be removed from the United States unless and until the Court orders otherwise"); and 2. The Respondents have until 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, April 1, 2025, to respond to the Amended Petition and Complaint, D. 12. So Ordered. /s Denise J. Casper United States Distric…

The Court in the Γ–ztΓΌrk case, whose order not to remove her from Massachusetts was not followed, has now ordered that she not be removed from the United States.

28.03.2025 21:12 β€” πŸ‘ 2871    πŸ” 753    πŸ’¬ 85    πŸ“Œ 32
Politicians are responding to public pressure to reverse the draconian cuts to Covid research.  I just called one of my Senators.  Actuaries say COVID will kills as many Americans in 2025 as lung cancer.  Millions more will get long COVID this year too.

Politicians are responding to public pressure to reverse the draconian cuts to Covid research. I just called one of my Senators. Actuaries say COVID will kills as many Americans in 2025 as lung cancer. Millions more will get long COVID this year too.

@michael-hoerger.bsky.social

28.03.2025 23:35 β€” πŸ‘ 462    πŸ” 125    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 2
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β€œIt has become clear that truth and transparency are not desired by the secretary, but rather he wishes subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/h...

29.03.2025 01:36 β€” πŸ‘ 2112    πŸ” 570    πŸ’¬ 48    πŸ“Œ 17
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March 28, 2025 β€œAnother wipeout walloped Wall Street Friday,” Stan Choe of the Associated Press wrote today.

March 28, 2025

29.03.2025 06:37 β€” πŸ‘ 2090    πŸ” 566    πŸ’¬ 38    πŸ“Œ 48
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The top FDA vaccine official is forced out, cites RFK Jr.'s 'misinformation and lies' A top vaccine advisor at the FDA was forced to resign on Friday. In his resignation letter, Dr. Peter Marks wrote "truth and transparency are not desired," by HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

A top vaccine advisor at the FDA was forced to resign on Friday. In his resignation letter, Dr. Peter Marks, wrote "truth and transparency are not desired," by HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

29.03.2025 12:27 β€” πŸ‘ 6892    πŸ” 2079    πŸ’¬ 209    πŸ“Œ 130

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